"Xi Yuan, can you translate the new book of 'Dog Author' for me?"

The British roommate came over with the English version of "The Caged Bird" in his hand and pleaded.

"It's the book "The Hour Hand Leaps to Death"

"Eh, Xi Yuan, what are you looking at?"

"It's that serious book."

The roommate came over and saw Xi Yuan holding a book in his hand and was slowly flipping through it, and asked again.

Xi Yuan paused, raised his head and answered,

The book he was holding in his hand was The Seven Sins.

"How do you know that the dog author has released a new book?"

"Of course, I watched the live broadcast of the 'dog author' receiving the award, and I need to thank the host for his repeated questions. The dog author's finally said his new book. ”

The 'dog author' of the British roommate is getting smoother and smoother.

Speaking a little proudly, it seems that he is proud that he watched the live broadcast of the dog author receiving the award,

After speaking, he looked at the "Seven Sins" in Xi Yuan's hand again,

"Didn't you buy this book a few days ago, why are you only reading it now?"

"I also want to ask, why does it take so long to deliver it when the delivery place is in the next city."

Xi Yuan couldn't help but complain.

The British roommate spread his hands,

"Oh, Xi Yuan, you bought it online. You know, there's a reason for the bookstore right outside the school gates. ”

"By the way, Xi Yuan, how do you read this book?"

"Interesting?"

"Well, I think it's quite interesting, and at the same time more in line with what I would expect from a serious book."

"What to expect?"

"The content of the plot is quite depressing. It's a heavy sight to watch.,But it's really a very good work.。 ”

"Excellent work? If you say that, I'm going to take the time to buy him back and read it. ”

"Well, I recommend you read it."

"Now...... Xi Yuan, can you translate for me the new book of the dog author, it is said that there are only 10,000 or 20,000 words of content, and I will treat you to French fries and fried fish in the evening. ”

"Forget it, I'm tired of eating chips and fish."

"Ah, isn't the french fried fish delicious?"

"Compared to other British snacks and food, yes......"

"Haha...... Xi Yuan, you are really humorous, but I also think you are right, I invited you to a burger that night? ”

"Okay......"

"What about the translator?"

Xi Yuan also heard that the dog author has opened a new book,

But just after "Seven Sins" arrived, I haven't had time to watch it.

At this time, I happened to be interested in the new book of the dog author, so I opened it and read it.

“…… Actually, I recommend you to learn Chinese. I'm not a good translator, the mood and atmosphere of the dog author in situ are almost lost through my translation, and I don't have the ability to describe words like the dog author. ”

"Of course I can, but it's too hard. You said that when I learned Chinese and then came to see the dog author, I really can't wait. ”

"You said that it would be nice if the dog author wrote a new book in another language, such as English, one day, then the dog author is the greatest author in my heart!"

Xi Yuan couldn't help but shake his head when he listened to his roommate's delusions.

The English version of "Caged Bird" is not translated by the dog author himself, and you still expect him to write a new book in English,

The dog writer may not know much English.

After thinking about it, Xi Yuan also found a new book by the dog author,

I watched it, and by the way, my roommate, who had an eye on the phone screen next to him, and couldn't wait to suddenly have an epiphany about Chinese, simply translated the content of the text.

“coll！ What a wonderful plot! ”

"Cool! Worthy of a dog author! ”

Then, Xi Yuan felt the enthusiasm of the next dog author's avid reader.

Xi Yuan felt that he was just a general translator, and he couldn't understand why this roommate was so excited.

Maybe you still have a bit of a talent for translation?

Or...... The plot of the dog author is intriguing in itself.

……

And this time.

Ji Zhuo, who doesn't understand English,

Just finished dinner, and chatted with the little fat dun under the gazebo in the community.

Little Fat Dun held an ice cream in one hand and a fan in the other, sweating while eating.

Ji Zhuo sat next to him, his heart was calm and naturally cool.

"Big brother, why aren't you hot, I'm going to die on this hot day."

"The mind is calm and naturally cool."

Ji Zhuo glanced at the little chubby dun's almost ball-like figure,

"Oh, I'll try."

“…… No, no, it's hotter......"

The little fat dun stopped the action of fanning quickly, and sat there still for a while,

I saw the sweat on my forehead running down my face and down again,

Immediately followed by a fan fan, puffing, and taking a bite of sorbet from time to time.

"Hey, I don't know why my grandmother can go out for square dancing in this weather."

Chubby Fan Fan and sighed.

After eating the sorbet, Little Fat Dun seems to be a little cooler,

"Big brother, have you read the new book of the dog author?"

"I saw ......"

Let's see it.

I guess I read it when I wrote it myself.

Ji Zhuo replied.

"Eh, big brother, then you say, is this dog author a horror?"

"A few days ago, I hoped that the dog author would write horror, but it seems that horror was really written."

"It just doesn't feel the same as I thought."

Little Fat Dun sat on the bench under the gazebo, turned around, and faced the outside of the gazebo,

“…… It doesn't seem to be too scary, like that...... But when I saw it, I was nervous again...... Before going to bed last night, I asked my grandmother if the gas was turned off tightly. ”

"It's weird...... Fortunately, there is air conditioning at home, and I can cover the quilt at night. ”

Looking at the little chubby dun thinking about life,

Ji Zhuo glanced at it,

"Do you think it's very realistic, so it feels terrifying?"

"Hmm...... It seems to be. Also, the horror of the dog author makes me feel like I'm a little scared to death...... I feel like the truck on the side of the road is going to overturn when I walk, and I'm afraid of ......getting stuck when I eat fish."

Listening to this little chubby dun babbling, the more he talked, the more outrageous it became.

Ji Zhuo was silent when he heard it.

“…… Actually, big brother, you tell horror stories very well, much more serious than the horror stories of the dog author, just the last ......"

Little Fat Dun suddenly remembered, turned his head again, looked at Ji Zhuo, and looked at Ji Zhuo with some anticipation,

"Or, big brother, tell me another horror story."

Looking at the little fat dun looking forward to it, and a little nervous gaze,

Ji Zhuo felt that it was not appropriate for him not to tell this little chubby dun a horror story.

"Okay......"

"Have you looked in the mirror?"

"Yes."

"Do you feel like when you walk through the mirror at night, you in the mirror appear a little later than you outside?"

"It seems to be ......"

This is just the beginning of the talk, and the little chubby dun's face showed fear and nervousness.

Sure enough, the more you eat, the more you love to play, and the more afraid you are, the more you have to listen.

"One day, you get up at night and go to the bathroom."

"I don't stay overnight, I hold it until the next morning."

Little Fat Dun shook his head quickly and said quickly.

"When you walk through the mirror, you see that you are a little closer to the toilet than you are."

"You turn your head to look, only to see that you in the mirror have turned your head to look at you."

"You're scared, but you're scared when you see you in the mirror......"

Then you reach for it and find yourself in the mirror.

The last sentence has not yet been spoken.

Chubby Dun was already scared.

“…… Big brother, let's stop here today...... We do have a mirror at the door of the toilet. ”

Chubby said.

"Well, forget it."

Ji Zhuo glanced at the little chubby dun and said out loud.

After a while,

Little Chubby Dun stopped playing the fan again,

Turning his head, as if he was about to cry, he said to Ji Zhuo again,

"Big brother, you'd better finish talking, I don't know what's going on next, I'm even more scared!"

“……”

"Then the mirror shattered."

"Oh, that's fine."

Then you see the shards of mirrors all over the floor, screaming and scared.

Of course

The last sentence Ji Zhuo still didn't say. After a while, this little chubby dun was really scared.

……

"Carol: Mr. A, there was another breakthrough in sales yesterday!

Carol: Yesterday's single-day sales exceeded 800! ”

After waking up at noon the next day, Ji Zhuo received a message from Carol,

Ji Zhuo, who hadn't woken up yet, was a little confused.

No way? Although the growth is not much, if it grows by 100 more a day, this accelerated growth is also a bit scary.

But

In the next few days, Ji Zhuo found that he was thinking too much.

The next few days.

Every day, Carol still informs Ji Zhuo of the sales data.

After the total sales in a single day exceeded 800, it was stable again.

One day, he almost fell off eight hundred.

Ji Zhuo also knows the reason why the single-day sales are increasing again,

It's purely Carol who adds some promotional resources, what a gambling dog.

Of course...... It may also be a bit clumsy, and this book has some basic readership and word-of-mouth relationship.

Otherwise, it will not be able to maintain the sales of 800 per day.

However, even if it sells 800 copies per day, it is still far from the goal of selling an average of 50,000 copies per month and 150,000 copies in three months.

So Ji Zhuo has been very happy and fulfilling these days.

Every day is an update of "Hour Leap to Death".

Then I took the time to write the script of "Shepherd Boy Seeking Immortals", play games, pit teammates,

Pick up the courier......

……

"Mr. Ji, then we'll put these things here. If you're sure it's okay, we're leaving. ”

Lou, the editor-in-chief of Delvin Press, still sent all the books that needed Ji Zhuo's signature.

Under Ji Zhuo's bargaining, it was finally agreed to sign 400 copies of each language version.

Then a total of 2,000 books were sent...... even intimately sent Ji Zhuo a box of pens for signing in the courier box.

Sent away the logistician who carried boxes of books into the house,

Ji Zhuo looked at the living room, one by one, big boxes,

I feel a little numb, okay, why publish so many language versions.

Does anyone buy it!

The sales on the first day were not bad, huh?

That's fine......

Ji Zhuo watched silent for a while, and then made a move.

What else can you do, sign it......

It can only be said that fortunately the pen name of the caged bird is 'no work.' ’

The only thing Ji Zhuo has had a little headache these days is that he needs to sign 2,000 signed books.

And Carol Gao of Bert Press is not happy, Ji Zhuo doesn't know, probably more uncomfortable.

……

"Linna, let's go to the restaurant for dinner in the evening. Call everyone in the editorial office. ”

Carol looked relaxed, except for the eye circles that were a little dark. He shouted out of the office.

If at the beginning, Carol was still nervous about when the results behind Ji Zhuo's book would explode,

Big Bang He must have believed that the book would definitely be a big hit, unless the judges of those awards were blind.

But Burt Publishing House is backed by the head office, and with the influence of the head office, not to mention that these judges are blind to other works, but it is still no problem to cure the blindness of this work.

Not to mention the shady awards, but it's still okay to have the awards not shady for the book.

It's just that I'm nervous about when this book will explode, and the later the explode, the more stressed he will be.

And now,

The resources that can be used in his hands, and even the resources that he promised to come from the head office, are all thrown into it.

Carol wasn't nervous anymore.

Anyway, the book was a big hit before he left, and he continued to be the editor-in-chief of Bert Press.

Or maybe he left his job and saw the news of the book winning the award in the corner of a small publishing house.

Well, from time to time, I look at the comments on the Internet about "Seven Sins",

I have to look at it when I wake up in the middle of the night, and then I see that it is the middle of the night...... That's why his dark circles are so heavy.

“…… Okay, Carroll, editor-in-chief. ”

Lina pushed open the hidden office door and walked in,

Looking at Carol turning her head to look at the computer screen again, she smiled and said,

"Editor-in-Chief Carroll, I don't think you need to worry too much about the results of 'Seven Sins'."

In the beginning, it was Carol who was the most confident and fanatical, and said this to Lina.

Now watching Lina say this to him, Carol was a little unsure of what to say.

paused, then smiled,

"Of course. Even with his current results, he is already a good seller. ”

"Just haven't lived up to our expectations?"

"Yes."

……

"Daddy, tell a story. Let's tell another story, yesterday's story is not interesting, it is not good......"

"I want to hear the story of that author, the story written by the author of "The Shepherd Boy Seeks Immortals"...... Daddy......"

Capital New Area.

The man went home and finished dinner.

The family sat down on the couch.

The girl leaned into her mother's arms, looking up at her father,

There was some anticipation in his eyes.

After the night tour of the capital city is finished,

In the past month, men have been telling stories to their daughters from time to time.

But after changing several stories in a row, my daughters are not very satisfied,

I don't talk about it until a few days apart...... My daughter has no interest in listening to other stories every day.

At this moment, the man looked at his daughter, listened to his daughter's words, and scratched his head a little.

If only it had been done before, it would be nice to say that the dog author has not written a new book yet.

But now the dog author has indeed released a new book.

However, this time it was a horror story.

The last "Night Tour of the Capital City" is also a bit of a ghost and god thing, the essence is a myth, and there is nothing too scary.

And this book is indeed a horror, anyway, the man himself thinks it's quite scary.

Is this suitable for my daughter, who is more than eight years old and not yet nine years old?

The man fell into deep thought.

The girl saw her father's hesitation, and her eyes lit up.

"Dad, isn't that author writing a new story, Dad, I want to listen to that author's new story."

"Daddy!"

The girl followed.

The wife, who was holding her daughter, also looked up at her husband,

When the author writes a new book, you can tell her about it, anyway, if the author writes it, your daughter can listen to it.

The man hesitated,

Looking at his daughter who is full of expectations,

Why don't you give it a try......

When I was a little older when I was a child, I also listened to my grandparents tell horror stories at night.

Thereupon......

"Ahem."

"This author is writing a new story, but it's a horror story, it's more scary."

"I want to listen!"

I don't know if I heard the man's words clearly, so the girl followed closely.

"That's okay, then dad will tell you, then if my baby daughter is scared, tell dad, let's talk about something else."

"Hmm!"

The girl nodded emphatically, and then leaned into her mother's arms,

Looking forward to looking at his father.

The man looked at his daughter,

Try to tell the story of the new book by the dog author gradually.

From time to time, he turned his head to look at his daughter's reaction, ready to stop if his daughter was too scared.

But

After talking for a while, the man realized.

I don't know if there's something wrong with what I'm retelling, or what.

Listening to the story, there was no fear on the girl's face, it was not as good as when she listened to "Night Tour of the Capital City" before,

Just listening to it with relish.